It’s the day after Canadian Thanksgiving, and I have got to say… I am STUFFED!
Speaking of things being stuffed, I regret to tell you that for Thanksgiving, I did not make a turkey. For one thing, I don’t even like turkey. For another…well.. that’s pretty much it. Why make a turkey if it will just waste precious oven space, and no one will eat it?
The only thing I like about having a turkey is the stuffing. But no matter. I made stuffing anyways. I will post the recipe soon, but, spoiler alert, it is the BEST thing about holidays at my house. Unless you’re a vegetarian. Then, I’m sorry but you’re out of luck…
But I’m talking about dessert now, so all my vegetarian friends can rejoice, because we can all enjoy this together!
Since I was making a huge Thanksgiving dinner, there was no time to make some elaborate dessert when I spent almost all of my day peeling chestnuts. (if anyone has an easy way of peeling chestnuts, PLEASE let me know!) Also, this is day 4 of me trying to go without chocolate for a week (someone should have warned me how hard this was…), so what I could make was limited.
But the result was glorious. These Cranberry Oatmeal Cheesecake Bars knocked my socks, shoes and gloves off. My sister, who isn’t usually a fan of sweet things, grabbed a second bar telling me how good they were.
Who needs chocolate when you can fake a cranberry cheesecake bar?
Cranberry Oatmeal Cheesecake Bars Ingredients
All you need is:
- flour
- brown & white sugar
- rolled oats
- salt
- baking soda
- cinnamon
- butter
- lemon
- dried cranberries
- plain yogurt
- vanilla extract
- egg white
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Cranberry Oatmeal Cheesecake Bars
Ingredients
Crust
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup whole wheat flour (or more all-purpose flour)
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup old fashioned oats
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 6 Tbsp salted butter, melted
- 3 tsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
Filling
- 1 1/3 cups dried cranberries
- 3/4 cup plain yogurt
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 Tbsp all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp lemon rind, grated
- 1 large egg white
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325˚F. Lightly spray a 9x13 inch baking dish with cooking spray.
- For the Crust: In a medium bowl, mix together the flours, sugar, oats, salt, baking soda and cinnamon. Pour in the butter and lemon juice, and mix until fully incorporated. (mixture should be crumbly)
- Reserve 1/2 cup of the oat mixture. Press the crust mixture into the prepared baking dish.
- For the Filling: In a medium bowl, mix together the filling ingredients until fully combined. Spread the mixture over the crust and sprinkle the reserved oat mixture evenly over the cranberry mixture.
- Bake the 40 minutes, or until the edges are golden. Allow to cool before cutting into squares.
These bars look amazing and I would definitely prefer them to chocolate!!
Same 🙂
This sounds really delicious!
I hope you had a glorious Thanksgiving, Cathleen. If these bars are an example of all the goodness you shared then I can definitely understand why you were stuffed!
Thank you so much for sharing…
These cheesecake bars look divine, Cathleen.
Hi, thanks for visiting me, the bars look delicious. have a nice week end
Happy belated thanksgiving! The bars look lovely. So full of great flavor!
Delicious bars!! Love the yogurt in the filing 🙂
Looks amazing, I've never seen oats in cheesecake bars… very clever.
These bars sound delicious!
Happy Belated Thanksgiving
Hey, Cathleen! Where's the cheese? Just kidding….I've always wanted to make my own bars so this recipe is bookmarked 🙂
Superb bars….
I would have more than one bar of this.. 😀
These cheesecake bars are so perfect for this time of the year!
Hi Cathleen , what wonderful ingredients to combine the flavors to make them so delicious , thanks for sharing 🙂 .